Molly Ivins
1944-2007
Molly Ivins was one of the best political columnist and I admired her wit, her sharp tongue and her courageous writing. A Liberal Texan, she saw herself as a leftist agitator who made a career writing about "who was getting screwed and who was doing the screwing." She was the author of such wonderful books as : Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America. She died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
"I'm sorry to say (cancer) can kill you but it doesn't make you a better person"
"If you think his daddy had trouble with 'the vision thing,' wait'll you meet this one," Ivins on George W. Bush in "The Progressive," June 1999.
"The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy,"
"Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German," Ivins in September 1992, commenting on the one-time presidential hopeful's speech to the Republican National Convention.
"If Texas were a sane place, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun"
"The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging"
"Everyone knows the man has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate"on President Bush
"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas — finest form of free entertainment ever invented"
"In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the (governor's) office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose"
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